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On the recordAugust 1, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 230 Leg.] YEAS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Mullin Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Sanders Schmitt Schumer Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Blackburn Fetterman Hoeven Menendez Romney Scott (SC) Vance Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 44. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having not voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The motion was rejected. Motion to Reconsider
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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